Hyper-heuristics have emerged as a way to raise the level of generality of search techniques
for computational search problems. This is in contrast to many approaches, which represent …

In home health care (HHC) operations, nurses are scheduled and routed to perform various
services at clients' homes. As this often requires a combination of vehicle routing and …

Abstract Home Health Care (HHC) agencies aim at providing care and/or services to
patients, at their homes, ensuring a quality of service at least equivalent to that given in a …

In China, family doctor contract service can provide not only the home health care service for
the elderly or patients with mobility difficulties at their homes but also the outpatient service …

In the service industry, it is crucial to efficiently allocate scarce resources to perform tasks
and meet particular service requirements. What considerably complicates matters is when …

This work presents a generalized model for the integrated problem of routing and
scheduling of the home healthcare delivery staff (caregivers) to maximize the revenue …

Over the last years home dialysis has become the preferred treatment option for some
patients with kidney failure. However, determining efficient and effective daily home-dialysis …

The efficient planning of search and rescue (SAR) operations is highly impactful in the
disaster response phase, which offers a limited time window with a declining chance for …

With technological progress in particular telemedicine and health care, the information
should meet and serve as well the needs of people and in particular whom with reduced …

The need for optimization in the Home Care Service is becoming more and more legitimate
in the face of the increase of demand and cost all over the world. Recently, many …